Dan

I did think when James went down injured at Wrexham it was a real possibility. You take him out of that side I'd go as far as saying it's one of the worst teams to play at that level - which is unbelievable relative to the money spent. Wednesday are obviously the worst ever but highly caveated situation. Very few teams get under 30 points in the Championship and I think if we'd never made that signing we might well have done, which is barely believable. As for next season - hard to know what the actual short term floor of this team is. If we're going to half arse it (we are, obviously) and rely on the two Thomas' for regular starts, and continue to use agents for signings, then I wouldn't put it past us.

Imagine you tell a Dusseldorf fan after that first leg two years ago that they'll kick 2026 off in the third tier. Reminds me of...

This entire thing encapsulates the decline perfectly doesn't it. Commemorating the best achievement possibly in football history and they've cobbled something together to try and distract from the fact they're doing absolutely **** all as usual. Every day is a day nearer to these ****s ****ing off out of the club.

I wouldn't put it past West Ham. They're very agent driven.

It is my final wish to see one last Tony Pulis compact 4-4-2. Begging this ends 0-0.

The winter window takes a turn as the vultures finally cotton onto Andrea Donno, and as stated in an above post he left for PAOK for £5.5mil rising to a potential £6.25mil. It's a great deal but it's definitely going to make a dent in my team in the short term, and annoyingly as well it's the loss of a club grown player, meaning somebody will have to be dropped from the European squad. In came Romanian winger Lorenzo Biliboc for £800k. We sell our 4th choice CB Stefan Gudelj to Honved for £600k which is a decent deal albeit he does need replacing. Where else to look but to go back to Cukaricki to finally secure Maksimovic who has regained interest in joining us. Only for him to sign yet another new deal at Cukaricki. His one goal all season happens to be for us. We break our club record on deadline day to bring in this tank from Vojvodina, who is better than Maksimovic anyway for me. £2.5mil. We finally move back to Vrsac after three and a half years but unfortunately, despite facing the worst team in the division in Novi Pazar, it is they who score the first ever goal. Though we manage the next four. Truth be told the league has become a bit of a procession and everything just follows the same pattern as before. We have a disappointing draw at OFK Beograd but produce an absolutely hilarious result at the end of February. We draw Sturm Graz in the round of 16 - quite middle of the road, tricky, but winnable. We put in a very decent performance in Austria and take a 1-2 lead back to Belgrade. Unfortunately the ground still isn't big enough to hold European games, which I wish they'd thought about. We actually make very hard work of the second leg and it's far more frantic than I was hoping for, but we do see it out in the end. To the quarters we go. It'll be Hoffenheim. I think the funniest part about the form of Bubanj, who managed 9 goals in the Subotica and Partizan games, is he isn't even our best striker. The younger Igor Jovanovic has been just as good, albeit mostly played deputy. He's delivered far more in Europe, while Bubanj seems to save most of it for the Serbian league. In short, he's too good for Serbia, but he's not really that great against better opposition. We beat Mitrovic's old club Vojvodina away before the league kindly postpone our game between the Hoffenheim games. Unfortunately we totally flunk it and are 0-3 down in the first half at home. We do push them and end up losing 2-3, but it's very uphill from here. It's a similar story in Germany. We're 2 down very early on and it's just too much. Despite doing most of the attacking over the two legs, Hoffenheim's superior quality showed. I do wonder what if Mitrovic was able to actually play, but that's the shit side of the registration rules I suppose. Out in the quarters. Respectable, but I do feel like we probably could've offered a bit more. Poor goalkeeping and defending cost us. The rest of the league season is a procession. We secure the title with four remaining games beating Zvezda 4-0. The job now is to do the invincible season. We have three kind home games after this but on the final day travel to 2nd placed TSC, who we've drawn 3-3 with on both occasions. Job done. An amazing season but a sign that things probably ought to come to a bit of an end. I won't better that season because I found myself instant resulting a couple of games by the end. I will have one more year, with a £5mil budget and £70k a week in wages (we're spending £33k!). The aim is the domestic double. We're in the Champions League play-off round so it's either that or the Europa League this year. I have an itch for a new save after this season. Bubanj signs off with 38 goals in the league which is a new record for the league. Jovanovic scores 17 in the league from 11 starts and 17 sub appearances, but bags a remarkable 15 goals in the Conference League in just 10 games. This has alterted the vultures, and with a £2.9mil release clause, interest from Italian giants and no interest in a new deal, he'll almost certainly be off.

The Bundesliga team has survived 15 times out of 17 since it's inception. German football is really peculiar with the performance of bigger clubs vs smaller. Lots of decent sized clubs seem to be permanently rubbish while you get small ones frequently making it to the Bundesliga and even Europe.

Another piss poor deal from the specialists in decline.

This season has definitely seen a lot of well run clubs rewarded and badly ones punished. Bournemouth, Sunderland and Brighton - three very well run clubs and all playing in Europe next season. Arsenal champions. Chelsea in midtable. Wolves and West Ham relegated. Not to mention us of course.

It's telling how dreadful it is here when you can actually look at clubs like Wolves and West Ham, accepted shambles clubs but they still aren't as fundamentally dishonest as our lot are.

This season is so bad it feels like it was almost personally designed.

Everton are a disgrace.

Predictably tedious and drab end to a tedious and drab season.

Begovic and Thomas - total waste of time.

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Don't let the door hit you.

Blackburn or Watford, what have you got for me

Get it done. I need a new lot to slag off

Absolutely amazing. He's scored an own goal from 30 yards - after turning us down a second time in January.

Over the season? Of course they were.

Should be protests from day one of next season. As there should've been last season.

Cannot believe I'm reading excuses on here. How bad do things have to get? They're absolutely clueless. We know their hand. We should assume failure until proven otherwise.

I'd describe Hull as similar. They attack with speed, they're not very good defensively - admittedly in the play-offs they barely gave a thing away.

Bit of justice. Didn't want Boro going up after this. I fear they will get absolutely smashed to pieces but fair ****s to Hull. One of the most baffling promotions I can remember. Probably the nearest thing to Holloway's Blackpool I can remember.

Nope. Waste of time watching Aiyawatt teams bar a hate watch.